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Dr. Raluca Lefticaru

Associate Professor

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School of CSAI&E
Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies
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Dr. Raluca Lefticaru

Biography

Raluca is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and the programme leader for the BEng Software Engineering course. She is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sheffield, affiliated with the Testing group.  Her research interests include software testing, especially model-based testing using evolutionary approaches, formal specification methodologies, P systems testing and verification. 

Recent activities: 

Research

Research Interests

  • Software Testing
  • Model-Based Testing
  • Search-Based Software Engineering
  • Membrane Computing
  • Simulation and Verification
Professional Activities
  • Co-chair of the Yorkshire Innovation in Science and Engineering Conference (YISEC 2023), Bradford, UK, 15-16 June 2023 
  • Invited speaker at the 23rd Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC 2022), Trieste, Italy, September 2022
  • Co-chair of the 5th Annual Innovative Engineering Research Conference (AIERC 2022), Bradford, UK, 17 June 2022
  • Co-chair of the 17th Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Testing (A-MOST 2021), 12 April, 2021, co-located with ICST 2021
  • Co-chair of the 4th Annual Innovative Engineering Research Conference (AIERC 2021), Bradford, UK, 23 April 2021
  • Co-chair of the 16th Workshop on Advances in Model-Based Testing (A-MOST 2020), 24 October, 2020, co-located with ICST 2020
  • Co-chair of the Student and Short Paper Track at the 11th Symposium on Search-Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2019), Tallinn, Estonia, 31 Aug–2 Sep, 2019
  • Communication Chair of the 18th International Conference on Membrane Computing (CMC18), Bradford, UK, 24–28 July, 2017
PC Member

SEFM 2025, A-MOST 2025ICTSS2023FMAS2023YISEC 2023ANT 2023, FMAS2022, SEFM 2022ICTSS 2022, WCCI 2022, AIERC 2022ICSE 2022SEFM 2021FMAS 2021EDMA-2021A-MOST 2021, CEC-ECST2021AIERC 2021FMAS 2020A-MOST 2020SSBSE 2020, CEC-ECST2020SSBSE 2019CMC19WMC 2018EDMA 2017SSBSE 2016SSBSE 2015WS-FMDS 2014CSB 2014SSBSE 2014WS-FMDS 2013WS-FMDS 2012MOTIP 2010MOTIP 2009

Reviewer
  • Expert Systems 
  • International Journal of Computer Mathematics
  • International Journal of Computers, Communications and Control
  • International Journal of Natural Computing Research
  • International Journal of Unconventional Computing
  • Journal of Membrane Computing 
  • Journal of Optimization 
  • Journal of Software: Evolution and Process 
  • Journal of Systems and Software 
  • Metaheuristics 
  • Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology
  • Science of Computer Programming
  • Soft Computing 
  • Software Testing, Verification and Reliability
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Professional activities

  • University of Pitesti, Romania - PhD in Computer Science

  • Computability in Europe, Member
  • Formal Methods Europe, Member
  • International Membrane Computing Society, Member

Publications

  • Annual Innovative Engineering Research Conference Book of Abstracts

    Kavian Cooke, Raluca Lefticaru and Therese Sheehan, (2022) University of Bradford.